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Informationen zum Autor Jason L. Powell is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. He formerly worked at MMU as Senior Lecturer and at Salford University were he was appointed as Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning) and Director of Admissions. He has published extensively on social theory and ageing in research articles and book chapters. Klappentext This book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern). Zusammenfassung This book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern). Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical Exegesis Chapter 2 Occidental Modernity, The Bio-Medical Gaze and Aging Chapter 3 Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological Approaches Chapter 4 Postmodernism, Culture and Aging Body Chapter 5 The 'Foucault Effect' and Aging: Relations ofPower, Surveillance and Governmentality Chapter 6 Aging in the 'Risk Society' Chapter 7 Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging
